All India Consumer Price Index Number for Industrial Workers (CPI-IW) on base 2001=100 for the month of January, 2011 increased by 3 points and stood at 188 (one hundred and eighty eight)....
· Critical institutional reforms set pace for double-digit growth· Scaled up flow of resources infuses dynamism in rural economy· GDP estimated to have grown at 8.6% in 2010-11·...
Various steps have been taken in this year’s union budget to give a boost to housing sector finance. The existing scheme of interest subvention of 1% on housing loans has been liberalized...
IT Initiatives: E-Filing and E-Payment of Taxes, Web-based facility for tax Payers to track Resolution of Refunds CBDT to Set up Eight more Aaykar Seva Kendras in 2011-12
Various tax initiatives...
Exemption Limit for Individual Tax Payers Raised to Rs.1,80,000 Qualifying age for Senior Citizens Lowered to 60 Years Senior Citizens above 80 Years to Get Exemption upto Rs. 5,00,000
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Hike in Pension for Those Who are 80 Years Old
Under the on-going Indira Gandhi National Old Age Pension Scheme for Below Poverty Line (BPL) beneficiaries, the eligibility for pension...
Government of IndiaMinistry of Health and Family WelfareDepartment of Health & Family WelfareNirman Bhawan, Maulana Azad RoadNew Delhi 110 108
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The Minister for Railways, Mamata Banerjee, has proposed some new initiatives to further expand rail-based industries in the Railway budget speech for 2011-12.
In Jammu &...
The Minister for Railways, Mamata Banerjee announced a number of measures for the welfare of Railway employees in her budget speech in Parliament today. They are as follows:-
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The Minister for Railways, Mamata Banerjee has informed the Parliament today that work on the new coach factory at Rae Bareli is progressing rapidly now. The Minister said the first coach...
NEW DELHI: The government must increase the personal income tax exemption limit to at least Rs 3 lakh from Rs 1.6 lakh at present in the upcoming Budget for giving relief to taxpayers...
Shri Mallikarjun Kharge, Minister of Labour & Employment has said that the ESI Scheme is one of the best Social Security Schemes in the world. The Minister today inaugurated the celebrations...
The average monthly receipt and disposal of appeals/complaints by the Central Information Commission was 2300 and 1965 respectively during January to December, 2010. 15,476 appeals/complaints...
An estimated 1.5 lakh workers affiliated to various trade unions joined a march to Parliament on Wednesday, protesting against high food prices, unemployment and demanding a social security...
The Central Government constituted an Expert Committee for review of the Employees’ Pension Scheme, 1995. The Expert Committee considered the various demands of pensioners including enhancement...
For the financial year 2010-2011, 9.5% rate of interest on EPF has been recommended by the Central Board of Trustees, Employees’ Provident Fund [CBT(EPF)] in the 190th meeting held on...
The Planning Commission has acknowledged that school teachers are important stakeholders in our country’s development and intimated that the proposal to introduce a life-insurance-cum-endowment...
The Department of Posts has decided to improve the Look and Feel of its post offices through Project Arrow. The project has been launched with the objective of modernising departmental...
To encourage the workers of unorganized sector to voluntarily save for their retirement and to lower the cost of operations of the New Pension System (NPS) for such subscribers, the...
The Central Government is contemplating introduction of a health insurance scheme for the central government employees and pensioners on pan – India basis, in consultation with...
The Union Service Public Commission (UPSC) has announced the result of the Indian Forest Service Examination held in July 2010. The list in order of merit contains names of 85 candidates,...
No. 36027/1/2011-Estt.(Res.) (government of India Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions Department of Personnel and Training
North Block, New Delhi Dated the:- 15th February, 2011
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